Memories of 2020 are now fading, meaning it can be easy to forget how on that Remembrance Sunday some bravely defied the lockdown to gather at war memorials. But we must not forget, as the tyranny must not be repeated.
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The Spectator's Sean Thomas is despairing over the state of our media and the future well-being of the U.K.'s Jewish community after attending the recent pro-Palestinian rallies.
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Tomorrow is Armistice Day in the UK. It’s also the scheduled time of a “million man march” in support of Palestine. There was a time, just a few short weeks ago, these concepts could peacefully co-exist. After all, doesn’t Armistice seem the most apposite time to call for a ceasefire? And yet it has become …
Education is supposed to encourage critical thinking. However, if critical thinking ever were a part of the education curriculum, it usually goes out the window around Remembrance Day. Take, for instance, Canada Remembers Times the Veterans’ Week Special Edition (5-11 November 2020). It is published by Veterans Affairs Canada and made available in BC provincial elementary schools. On page one[Read More...]
Now that November 11 and the official “remembering” of our “heroes”, their “bravery” and “greatness” is over, it is a good time to take a deeper, more critical look at Canada’s participation in wars.
While on Remembrance Day we are told to “thank a soldier for your freedoms” and the commemorations talk about “defending democracy”, the reality of wars’ connections to colonialism, imperialism, and oppression are ignored.
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Although white poppies have been around for almost as long as the red ones as a symbol of remembrance a surprisingly large number of people know nothing about what they stand for. To put it in a nutshell, white poppies promote peace, red poppies help promote Permanent War.
Cognitive dissonance in Psychology
The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts or behaviors in order to reduce the tension.
Anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves of one of his or her habits.
Motivated Ignorance in Politics
If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
— William Blum
The officials are called one by one to lay wreathes, a ceremony of mechanical efficiency. With each laying comes the sense of wonder at how this could happen. Political figures are the first to vote in parliaments and side with the executive when it comes to wars. The temptations of human drives to tempt, and then succumb to death, were there long before Sigmund Freud identified them.
